The Johnny Ludvigsson Childhood Diabetes Fund Prize for Young Childhood Diabetes Researchers in Sweden is awarded to Joey Lau Börjesson. Joey is awarded the prize of 50,000 SEK for her research on transplanted insulin-producing cells.

Gustaf Christoffersson, Department of Medical Cell Biology, is awarded the Gustafsson Prize to Young Scientists in 2018.The prize awarded to researchers younger than 37 years consists of a research grant of SEK 2.5 million over three years.

Faculty of Medicine supports Ilkka Pietilä

2017-02-01

Ilkka Pietilä has received funding for two years post-doc from Faculty of Medicine, UU. Ilkka's research will deal with "Endothelial cell derived Shb in angiogenesis and hematopoiesis

The target of the study is to reveal the importance of endothelial cell-derived Shb in angiogenesis and several pathological processes, such as tumor metastasis. Given the critical role for VEGF/Shb/FAK signaling in angiogenesis we address the mechanism of how VEGF/FAK signal transduction is disturbed when the adapter protein Shb is conditionally deleted from the endothelial cells. This knowledge is essential for finding low-molecular weight inhibitors of SHB function that could serve a role in treatment of malignant and cardiovascular diseases.